[9171] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Re Naughty Bits on the Net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clay Shirky)
Mon Dec 20 09:31:01 1993
From: Clay Shirky <clays@panix.com>
To: thosstew@aol.com
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1993 09:28:52 -0500 (EST)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9312182208.tn212595@aol.com> from "thosstew@aol.com" at Dec 18, 93 10:08:16 pm
thosstew@aol.com writes:
> No it wouldn't. The software I've suggested would be installed at the
> receiving end, at home on your very own PC, by parents (or prudes) who wanted
> it. Anything that tripped it would be locked until the parent (or whoever
> possessed the key) unlocked it. That's entirely reasonable.
It is entirely reasonable; I misunderstood you to be suggesting adding
these filters to the net and not to end terminals in users homes. This
could work, and seems a very good way to keep the responsibility for
filtering with the users rather than the providers.
--
Clay Shirky
